deusofnull

Youre not wrong that there is a lot of focus on tech specifically with regards to progressive anti-trust policy. But it doesnt have to be one or the other. Our definitions of what a monopoly is, like the article states, has to do with consumer pricing rather than if a firm is a monopoly or not.

Personally, I think amazon, if properly divided, could be dozens of healthy, competitive businesses. Maybe if there were less monolithic, open standards would be more important to facilitate cooperation and integration. In some ways this applies to the brick and mortar / ISP companies too.

You're probably right, and I would love to see that confirmed. FB wouldnt have to link to the Jira ticket or give the name or details of the ticket, but verify that was the case and then explain why nothing was done.

The article does clearly address that Twitter and Github had to admit to the same issue but the scope and duration of the problem was far smaller.

> Both Github and Twitter were forced to admit similar stumbles in recent months, but in both of those cases the plain text user passwords were available to a relatively small number of people within those organizations, and for far shorter periods of time.

That is to say that it is somewhat remarkable due to all the servies that use facebook as a login.

Limewire is gonna make a come back

Do you have any references I / others could take a look at? Ive heard such skepticism but maybe not from the most reputable sources. Thanks!

This is one of those classic situations where the "why not both" meme is really appropriate. AIs and Robots and Humans working together.

RIP we will never forget you.

No, I think thats the situation. NYC wised up to the fact that Amazon wants to be in NYC more than NYC needs 25,000 jobs. Sure there are benefits to having Amazon in NYC for NYC, but not if its going to be net negative fiscally on the city, and not if it means they have to sell out unions.

At the end of the day, our reps job is to negotiate on our behalf. That said, we all know the mass of resources that Amazon can throw around. It would frankly be irresponsible government to preemptively compromise, or not seek the absolute best deal for their constituents.

jesus christ, i didnt know that....

I love it. Gonna try and get some of my friends to use this! Plus there's something unabiguously cool about chatting through the terminal... hacker aesthetic or something like that.

How would you say your privacy + tech measure up against Signal and WhisperSystems? I love those folks and what they build and have been using Signal primarily for texting for a while now.

Shout out to Django!

And independent patronage at that. A lot has changed with my monthly media budget in the past ~2 years. The majority of it is now contributions to creators on Patreon, coming it at about 60 a month. Journalism and independent blogs can be funded on this model as well.

maybe nsa was installing a whole bunch of wire taps?

Yeah i feel like a DDoS that big would be afecting other google services right now...

isn't it also strange that the shadow of their ui components are still loading?

listening to a podcast on soundcloud, funny enough.

How do you know this universe is boring / mundane to a hereto unknown creator civilization? Maybe this universe is highly novel when compared to their experience?

I am a patron of a handful of left-wing / comedy / education podcasts and all I can say is that that "scene" has been steadily growing since I got into it around 2016. Independent, patron based funding models really works for podcast content.

Chapo Trap House, fueled by over 100k $5 dollar donations, is a great example. Not all get to that level, but if you're a 1-3 person podcast making good content for your niche, it only takes a few thousand listeners supporting you with $5 a month to support the whole project. I think those podcasts are going to continue to grow in number for a while as the community grows.

There isnt even a need for large scale curative organizational involvement for these kinds of projects. I see the article mentions Slate, and NPR. While those are fine orgs, there is a real appeal to the auteur style of small scale, community driven media. Hosts go on each others shows, the listeners of the various podcasts interact with one another on twitter, and a weird kind of modular audio content network emerges out of the many moving pieces. Theres a place for large-orgs curating podcasts, doing more extensive journalism requiring resources, or providing larger content libraries for the un-initiated, but the botique podcast is something here to stay.

nothing stopping you from popping in, grabbing yr 10 dollar water, and texting the chatbot from a more dignified location 20 minutes later.

SMS txt bots are actually really useful. I use digit.co as a little saving acct bot and i really love it.

Certainly. One name for that for that entire phenomenon you're describing the functioning of is 'The Spectacle'.

I don't mean just the dictionary definition of spectacle, rather I'm referencing the Situationist + Critical Theory concept of The Spectacle. Guy Debord's "The Society of the Spectacle" is a wild piece of thought.

It's an absolute tome, but essentially society is now mediated by social relations of spectacle which are symbols / signs / abstractions of actual material relations. And like you're saying, politicians play a huge role in wielding spectacle towards their material goals. Some of this might seem strangely familiar / redundant but that just speaks to the impact Situationist thinking has had on our conception of society and culture.

Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle (Paris, 1967). http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/debord/1.htm

Of course they only wanted the senior flesh.

I'm not trying to dunk on Congress too hard, but so much of their public hearings are about the spectacle of gov officials holding "someone" accountable.

And it's bipartisan too, the spectacle.

The Dems were looking to further the Russia election manipulation spectacle, and I'd guess Repubs were hoping to advance their narratives of "shadowbanning" and ideological search results bias.

Maybe he's gonna use a BoringCompany drill to DRILL to Mars. Ever think of that?

i only made it to like the 3rd audio sample and this is honestly and genuinely unbearable. great job capturing that feeling. good work.

Oh definitely I agree. Gotta find that middle path.

They'd use survey monkey.

This is awesome liam. im just over twice your age and am just now writing game of life simulators.... man, what was i doing at 12???

who hurt you dude?

Yes! Exactly. Intent and the meaning of what you say is important, sure, but equally if not more important is the effect and interpretation other people have upon hearing it. If you say X and others hear Y, if your goal is to communicate in an efficient and respectful manner, then the clarity of Your own words is Your problem.

"No means no" is also currently a common parenting phrase to teach kids about what to say if someone is touching them in inappropriate ways.

Shit, a mobile DoS hub sounds like it would still be a good use case for the cops / FBI / DHS to "shut off" local internet.